* Volunteers will provide basic English and Mandarin translation if needed.

“No” to injustice

Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 NN
Language: English

Hummingbird Union | Seoul

Hummingbird Union gathers young people to provide solutions on social issues collectively selected by their members. This year they learnt about climate change, human rights, refugee, and ecology. The Hummingbird Union explore their solutions through a medium approachable by everyone: Music. They parade and perform at demonstrations to revitalise the Korean society.

#CollaborativeLearning
#Music

HATOL: Between Charges and Chances | Manila

The HATOL public art installation is a socially engaged art project intended to contribute to the personal development of the surrendered drug dependents through art workshops and productions. About 30 participating artists from Camp Bagong Diwa DOH-TRC underwent a creative process of undefining, defining, and redefining consciousness on identity, capacity, community, and the universality of our human rights and our experiences.

#CommunityArt
#HumanRight

Grassroot Filming and Exhibition Project | Hong Kong

Grassroot Filming and Exhibition Project believes children’s imagination has no boundaries. What does social issues, like education reform, extended working hours, imbalance distribution of social resources, look like in their eyes? This project pairs up youngsters and children from the grassroot to produce short videos on social equity, and host exhibition around Hong Kong. People from different social background meet and communicate through this project, share views and thoughts on social issues, thus construct an ideal civil society.

#Empathy
#SocialJustice
#Empowerment

What I Think About When I Think About Home

Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Language: English, Mandarin

Hear and Found | Bangkok

Hear and Found debunks misunderstanding in indigenous culture in Thailand, which the indigenous communities are often being labelled as drug dealers and forrest destroyers. Hear and Found engages with local communities and tribes by recording their musical culture and promote the culture with innovative ways to reach modern audiences. An empowerment process therefore happens by allowing the often misheard indigenous communities to regain their voices.

#Diversity
#Voices

Rural Women Empowerment | Guangzhou

Rural Women Empowerment focuses on the well-beings of women and children rights in the rural China. This project encourages women and children to actively participate in public affairs. Rural Women Empowerment serves as a platform for young people with visions in rural area development. They have impacted 8515 members from 392 villages. They also establish “Ban Xiang Institute” in 9 provinces with 30 villages.

#RuralWomen
#Empowerment

Collective Negative Space Village | Taipei

Negative Space refers to area outside buildings that open the boundaries and links and reform new courses. Collective Negative Space Village is an experimental architecture project. This project attempts to start an exploration of a new possibility of architecture via the “productivity” of Negative Space, which includes relative, public, social and political economic thinking.

#Village
#ExperimentalArchitecture

Towards A Sustainable Future

Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Language: English, Mandarin

Seoul CoLab for 7 Generations | Seoul

Seoul CoLab for 7 Generations provides a space for young people aged 9-24 to reimagine ways of living and working and breaks the notion of white collar and stable jobs as the only option. At Kurikindi Centre, they explore "What is a Good Life?" and try to imagine new, alternative careers for individuals and the society.

#GoodLiving
#Sustainability

Take a photo of the trash | Jiangxi

Traditionally, with the help from the volunteers and the officials in Chinese village, villagers can classify the garbage with basic understanding. However, the team hopes to use art to educate the villagers and show the beauty of food waste to the public. Ultimately, she hopes to enhance the public environmental awareness.

#EnvironmentalEducation
#Co-creating

iDiscover Asia | Hong Kong

iDiscover source local stories to understand the uniqueness of place with local communities, then partner with creative professionals who with the use of digital technology bring these stories to life in a true community museum and connect them to people outside the community. Created, designed, and powered by locals, their projects have motivated community to maintain the uniqueness of place by fostering deep understanding to the community while promoting sustainable traveling.

#SustainableTravel
#Heritage

No One Left Behind

Time: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Language: English, Mandarin

Ever-green In Creative Art | Guangzhou

Ever-green in Creative Art from Guangzhou improves elderly’s quality of life with art therapy inspired activities. By building a community together with a group of young people, this project empowers about 60 elderly by raising their self awareness and confidence through dance and music.

#ParticipatoryArt
#Elderly

Heartist | Bangkok

Many people in Thailand with learning disabilities are still trying to find a way to fit in with society. Some might often feel left out because of their differences. However, Heartist see it as their uniqueness. By selling the product from therapeutic fabrics, which made by children with learning disabilities, Heartist displays the creativity of special need people.

#SpecialNeeds
#CreativeArtProduct

Sightfeeling | Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, there are 174,800 people with visual impairment in Hong Kong. They mainly employed by elementary occupation, such as massage and packing. Sightfeeling aims to provide visually impaired person (VIP) more opportunities and becomes a platform to display their talents through products, experiential activity and photo exhibition with blind photograph.

#BlindPhotography
#VisuallyImpairedPeople

The Practice of The Everyday

Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Language: English, Mandarin

Dugong and Din | Weihai

Dugong and Din reimagines dining space in old town of Weihai and incorporates design thinking into everyday’s dining experience. By telling stories of food culture with arts, Ru Gen Yu Ding inspires the public to rethink urban-rural relationship, by linking culture that connect both communities.

#UrbanRual
#FoodCulture

9floor | Taipei

We believe a share-economy developed through internet technology and social platforms may bring positive changes. 9floor currently provides five co-living apartments in Taipei since 2015. It aims to challenge people’s imagination of “home” and encourage them to re-imagine the possibilities of “home.” Sharing spaces with others for activities may not be rare in the city, but we try to adopt the practice at homes where people live.

#ShareEconomy
#Coliving

Catalyzing Arts Education to Create a Sustainable Community | Hongseong

Citizens of rural communities often struggle for a more sustainable life with their knowledge, skills, values and mental abilities. Chungnam Arts and Culture Foundation believes that art education can develop the intellectual base for sustainable living on an everyday basis. They aim to raise the community awareness through diverse arts education, to guide students grow as an environment and ecosystem-sensitive individuals and develop intercultural understandings and an empathetic commitment to cultural diversity. By providing a wide variety of art programs, Chungnam Arts and Culture Foundation links up the people in the community with a closer relationship.
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